16 May, LVI A.S.

1. The Devil’s Advocate

Time Stamp: 17:39

• What is your endgame?
  • When you make choices in life, when you take ownership of your life, what is it you are directing yourself to?
    • Do you have a career end?
    • Do you have a familial or human connection end?
  • Are you so self destructive as to not care about your end?
  • How does your endgame affect those around you?
    • When should you care or adjust because of this?
  • How can a Satanist use this concept to their benefit?

2. Infernal Informant

Time Stamp: 34:38

• Vietnam vets killed during secret Pacific mission get Maine memorial nearly 60 years later
  • https://www.foxnews.com/us/vietnam-vets-killed-during-secret-pacific-mission-get-maine-memorial-nearly-60-years-later
  • Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top secret mission to Vietnam, three years before President Lyndon Johnson officially sent U.S. combat troops to the country.
  • They never made it. Their airplane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines, leaving behind no trace.
  • Ever since, their families have been fighting to get answers about the mission from the Pentagon. They also want their loved ones to be recognized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • For the families, it’s been heart-wrenching that the soldiers were not properly memorialized like others who died in the war.
  • “I do feel frustrated. It’s almost as if they never existed as soldiers. It’s almost like they don’t matter, that their deaths don’t matter,” said Dianna Taylor Crumpler, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, whose brother, James Henry Taylor, an Army chaplain, died on the flight.
  • On Saturday, families of more than 20 of the fallen soldiers were on hand for the unveiling of a memorial in Columbia Falls, Maine, to honor those who perished when the plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Columbia Falls is about 190 miles (305 kilometers) northeast of Portland, Maine.
  • “It’s incredible,” said Donna Ellis, of Haslett, Michigan, who was 5 when her father, Melvin Lewis Hatt, died in the crash.
  • The mission, early in the Vietnam war, is shrouded in mystery.
  • Soldiers from across the country assembled at Travis Air Force Base in California before boarding a propeller-powered Lockheed Super Constellation operated by the Flying Tiger Line, which chartered flights for the U.S. military.
  • The 93 U.S. soldiers, three South Vietnamese and 11 crew members aboard Flight 739 never made it to Saigon. It departed from California and made refueling stops in Hawaii, Wake Island and Guam before vanishing on the next leg of the flight to the Philippines on March 16, 1962.
  • There was a report of a midair explosion witnessed by sailors on a tanker in the area, but no debris from the aircraft was recovered.
  • The families have spent years seeking answers to no avail. Freedom of Information Act requests by Ellis and others yielded redacted documents with little useful information about the clandestine mission.
  • “It turns into a rat maze,” Ellis said.
  • Because their deaths were not in the combat zone, their names were not allowed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
  • Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan, took up the cause and introduced legislation in 2019 to allow the names to be etched on the memorial, but it never made it to the Senate floor.
  • “It is past time that we properly honor those lost. That’s why I will continue to work with my colleagues and the families of those lives lost on ways we can honor the servicemembers,” Peters said.
  • In Maine, the founder of Wreaths Across America, which places wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and at veteran gravesites around the world, was moved by the story and decided to create a monument. The granite stone has a marble marker with the names on it.
  • The unveiling Saturday featured a reading of the names, a rifle salute, the playing of taps and the laying of a wreath.
  • Phil Waite from the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration told the group he believes the memorial represents “a first step” to greater recognition. “I think there’s more to come,” he said.
  • The event provided an opportunity for families to get together and share stories.
  • “This will be closure for a lot of families,” said Susie Linale, of Omaha, Nebraska, part of a contingent of six family members, including her sister and brother. They wore buttons with an image of their father, Albert Francis Williams Jr., who died in the crash.

• Space Force commander fired after comments made on conservative podcast
  • https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/politics/space-force-lohmeier-fired-after-comments/index.html
  • Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier joined The Steve Gruber show to discuss his new book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,” which alleges that Marxist ideologies are becoming widespread within the armed forces. He expounded on those concerns in the podcast.
  • “Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be,” Lohmeier said. “That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.”
  • When pressed on what exactly he meant, Lohmeier decried the New York Times 1619 Project, a historical look at how slavery formed America’s institutions, as “anti-American.”
  • “It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base — that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land,” Lohmeier said. “If you want to disagree with that, then you start (being) labeled all manner of things including racist.”
  • Lohmeier did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
  • “Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Space Operations Command commander, relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14, due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead,” a Defense Department official told CNN. “This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast. Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation (CDI) on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity.”
  • Another defense official said the investigation would also look at all elements of rules and policy by which the book was published. It is not clear whether Lohmeier consulted his chain of command before publishing. A blurb about the book on Amazon described it as a “timely and bold contribution from an active-duty Space Force lieutenant colonel who sees the impact of a new-Marxist agenda at the ground level within our armed forces.”

3. Creature Feature

Time Stamp: 1:02:05

• National Parks
  • https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-origins.htm
  • It stemmed from the desire to protect special places for visitors’ present and future enjoyment.
  • Since Yellowstone was designated in 1872, the concept of what constitutes a national park has expanded significantly. The original focus on natural wonders has evolved to include sites that chronicle human history, educate, and elevate the quality of life.
  • The grandeur of the American West inspired the idea of national parks. There, vast landscapes, still untouched by development filled the eye. Artists, authors, and scientists struggled to capture the beauty they encountered and to record and share their discoveries. But they worried. What would happen when westward expansion arrived on the doorstep of the wilderness?
  • Artist George Catlin, during an 1832 trip to the Dakotas, was perhaps the first to suggest a novel solution to this fast-approaching reality. Indian civilization, wildlife, and wilderness were all in danger, wrote Catlin, unless they could be preserved “by some great protecting policy of government…in a magnificent park…. A nation’s Park, containing man and beast, in all the wild[ness] and freshness of their nature’s beauty!”
  • Encouraged by art, literature, and science, a powerful preservationist viewpoint gradually emerged. Even without a national policy or one designated agency, individual sites won protection.
  • In 1861, Congress appointed Ferdinand Hayden, head of the government’s new geological survey, to lead a fact-finding expedition to the region at the headwaters of the Yellowstone River. The area, situated in the Montana and Wyoming territories, had been an attraction for explorers, trappers, and prospectors since the late 18th century.
  • There were numerous accounts of its strange features, geysers, hot springs, and holes of bubbling mud, but it was not until Hayden’s team of geologists, botanists, and zoologists returned from their trip that the U.S. government had a full account of the area’s wonders.
  • Hayden strongly advocated for setting the Yellowstone region aside as a national park, and it did not take long for him to convince Congress. Congress approved the legislation in early 1872, and on March 1st of that year, President Grant signed the bill designating 2.2 million acres of land as “a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”
  • The second section of the bill gave the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for “the preservation, from injury or spoilation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.”
  • The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 allowed presidents to proclaim permanent forest reserves on publicly-owned land—legislation that led to national forests. The Antiquities Act of 1906 gave presidents authority to protect sites of historic significance as national monuments.
  • Congress also authorized the preservation of four major Civil War battlefields during this era, designating them as National Military Parks.
  • Other parks followed: Sequoia (1890) Mt. Rainier (1899), Crater Lake (1902) and Yosemite (1890). Over time, the federal government established policies on the preservation of natural resources: Laws and presidential decrees, however, did not solve real-world administration problems.
  • In Need of Oversight
  • While some of the national monuments reserved under the 1906 Antiquities Act were located in areas controlled by the Department of the Interior (DOI), others were on land supervised by the Department of War or the Department of Agriculture. With responsibility divided among several departments, who would make the rules, and could they possibly be consistent?
  • The problem was no single federal agency had the authority to operate and advocate for these parks and monuments. Individual sites received uneven attention and minimal federal support.